When anyone mentions Taman Billion in Cheras, the Western food restaurants in Jalan Siput Akek invariably come to David’s mind. While it was not his first visit to such a place, he remembers it as “a street with many Western food restaurants that my family frequented once a month”. “In the 1990s, Western food was relatively more expensive, so it is something my middle-income family could not afford to have very often. Obviously, this was a Western food experience at a fraction of the price,” he says. “I vaguely remember that there were more Western food restaurants than now.

Source: The Edge Markets March 09, 2021 08:03 UTC